May was a big reading month for me, so much so that you get a second post about books! (See part 1 here)  Here are a few more I read last month... The Fever by Megan Abbott.  I feel like I heard about this one on the What Should I Read Next podcast, but I don't remember for sure.  We were browsing our local bookstore, and I picked it up kind of on a whim.  This book was not exactly what I expected. Girls at the local high school start dropping from this weird disease that presents with … [Read more...]

May was a fun month for my reading life.  A friend handed me a book and told me she thought I would like it (and I did!), I read a book from my Year of Finishing book list that I've been meaning to read forever, and I grabbed a book from the local bookstore that was on my TBR.  I've got all sorts of nerdy goodness to talk about today. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan.  I'd heard of this book in passing, but the descriptions online never really drew me in.  However, when … [Read more...]

Armchair traveling means visiting a culture outside your own without leaving your chair.  Being immersed in the sights, smells, tastes, and feelings of a particular place, sometimes to the point that you lose track of where you actually are.  This month's reads definitely had me doing some traveling. At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe by Tsh Oxenreider.  I was part of the launch team for this book, so I got the ebook a few weeks ahead of the April … [Read more...]